I used both the bold and italics several times without fail.

I wish I could see the errors (well maybe not).

...
I know HTML tags.

I know how to find errors.

I know how to isolate the problem.

I am now trying to post a review.

This sentence, this HTML code and this HTML code alone is preventing it from posting.:

[i]Argentina[br /]Tango in Buenos Aires:[br /]It's more than just a dance ... the tango, born in the poor neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, is the very soul of Argentina.[/i]

( square brackets substituted because I am too lazy/tired to double check the ascii code for the caret brackets... )


After 45 minutes of work trying to 'fix it' ...I think I rediscovered Mona's thought here.

You can not have a [br /] tag in between multiple lines of bold or italics. Although I am sure that should work.

So the line above needs to look like this:

[i]Argentina[/i][br /][i]Tango in Buenos Aires:[/i][br /][i]It's more than just a dance ... the tango, born in the poor neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, is the very soul of Argentina.[/i]

to produce these lines of text:

Argentina
Tango in Buenos Aires:
It's more than just a dance ... the tango, born in the poor neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, is the very soul of Argentina.


Anyway, I think it is broken as it is now, reference the thought above and Mona's note earlier.

It needs to be fixed.



...tom...

P.S. Can someone explain the odd [br /] tags also..?? Why not the ordinary one I see everywhere else: [br]..?? We are sure that is not part of the problem..??
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I don't know but dragonfire just depressed me! Shoot! I was working in the editor and now I am going to worry about losing my work if my connection goes down...again.

I have a headache now.

I decided to go ahead and try to post a book review tonight. I managed with the the bold and italics, though it was a pain. I kept trying to get my links to work and they weren't. Well..they weren't working the way I wanted to them to. I like using the hyperlinks, so the name of the book or movie or whatever I'm liking to is the link. Well that wasn't working for me and I couldn't figure out how to do it that way. My review was a mess with all my attempts at the links cluttering it up. I took them out completely at that point. I then tried to just delete it and I couldn't. I got some error about trying back later. I then went back in to edit yet again and fought with the links again. I thought I finally figured out how to do the links the way I wanted, but once I got to the preview page, my changes weren't there anymore so I don't know if I figured it out or not. This is highly frustrating, especially since it is so close to the end of the month.

This is going to make posting a nightmare, especially if I can't get my links the way I want them. That's a huge step backward in my opinion and I'm not happy at all.

I'm beginning to think I should have just gone and beat my head against a wall instead of trying to post. I still wouldn't have my review posted like I wanted, but I would have gotten the headache with less effort.

It's okay. The stress of not being able to post because of the html already had given ME a headache too. Maybe if I knew more about html it wouldn't be so hard to find the code that is messing up. For me it is like trudging through quicksand, slow.

I was writing in wordpad and transferring over but thought it would work better just writing on the site. But when you mentioned it could be lost if internet went down, I stopped doing that! So now working with no html to make it easier to submit with no problems--going through word then pasting it in.

br is code for break. It is ONE of the html codes I know of about three. LOL

I started a new thread on the text editor with a clear "help" title figuring that it would be good to centralize the discussion and it would make it easier for others coming to the boards to find help on the issue. Maybe even get it pinned?

Jeff

Please, nobody has addressed my issue about links in write-offs. When I get a new review for my write-off, what will happen? will I be able to add them? and how, then what happens if I click update on my w/o page to add the new review? I read somewhere on this tread that if you already have HTML codes in your review they won't be accepted until changed, is that true?

I am very unhappy about this and now am going to attempt to finish writing a review to post. I also have no intention of writing directly onto the eps page since I have issues about losing reviews that way.

Is this time for a revolt!

I can't help wonder why they go and do this to us when there are so many other things needing fixing on the site, why mess with something that worked well and didn't need fixing.

Barbara...I guess I may have to end my write-off if there is no solution and its been such fun to host with so many entrys....*sigh*..............